marshall409
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Oh no, another punk kid in his mom's basement.
Basically what I'm working with is the upper basement of a backsplit semi.
I'm extremely fortunate that my neighbours are perfectly fine with the amount of noise I make, so isolation is not an issue.
The space is APPROXIMATELY 20 feet long (front of the house to back) and 18 feet wide. Give or take the nooks and crannies on the wall with the stairs and doorways, its a square.
Floors are bare concrete with some area rugs under the drums and control area. The walls are concrete with these studs...I'm thinking they're 2x2? Maybe not exactly but they're square and about the thickness of studs I'm used to which I know are 2x4. On that (most likely DIY built) frame is some thin flimsy 80s faux panelling. I'm guessing soundwise it's just like having bare concrete walls. The panelling is getting torn off on Tuesday but I'm going to leave the framing up for now.
The huge ugly fake fireplace and the big TV unit you see will be gone tuesday, and I have a small computer desk than I plan on using instead of my current setup, which is sitting on the couch with my computer and speakers set up on a low coffee table.
My mother and I are discussing drywalling the roof, and possibly the walls, but unfortuantely there needs to be a bedroom basement built before she spends money on this area. The other thing is, I may not be here much longer as I could be leaving for school as early as January, so I don't want to talk her into drywalling the roof with resilient channel and stuff in an effort to reduce noise upstairs when I may not be using this space much longer.
My ideas:
1. Building bass traps and broadband absorbers as per Ethan Winer's designs. This is a no brainer.
If the walls and floors are just bare concrete, should I leave them bare and use 703 panels all over the place, OR should I drape the whole room floor to ceiling with a big heavy fabric and then use panels.
Is there any other cheap material I could possibly throw up on the walls that would be a major improvement over the bare concrete?
Also, any tips on the layout of the room would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Adam Marshall
Basically what I'm working with is the upper basement of a backsplit semi.
I'm extremely fortunate that my neighbours are perfectly fine with the amount of noise I make, so isolation is not an issue.
The space is APPROXIMATELY 20 feet long (front of the house to back) and 18 feet wide. Give or take the nooks and crannies on the wall with the stairs and doorways, its a square.
Floors are bare concrete with some area rugs under the drums and control area. The walls are concrete with these studs...I'm thinking they're 2x2? Maybe not exactly but they're square and about the thickness of studs I'm used to which I know are 2x4. On that (most likely DIY built) frame is some thin flimsy 80s faux panelling. I'm guessing soundwise it's just like having bare concrete walls. The panelling is getting torn off on Tuesday but I'm going to leave the framing up for now.
The huge ugly fake fireplace and the big TV unit you see will be gone tuesday, and I have a small computer desk than I plan on using instead of my current setup, which is sitting on the couch with my computer and speakers set up on a low coffee table.
My mother and I are discussing drywalling the roof, and possibly the walls, but unfortuantely there needs to be a bedroom basement built before she spends money on this area. The other thing is, I may not be here much longer as I could be leaving for school as early as January, so I don't want to talk her into drywalling the roof with resilient channel and stuff in an effort to reduce noise upstairs when I may not be using this space much longer.
My ideas:
1. Building bass traps and broadband absorbers as per Ethan Winer's designs. This is a no brainer.
If the walls and floors are just bare concrete, should I leave them bare and use 703 panels all over the place, OR should I drape the whole room floor to ceiling with a big heavy fabric and then use panels.
Is there any other cheap material I could possibly throw up on the walls that would be a major improvement over the bare concrete?
Also, any tips on the layout of the room would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Adam Marshall
